New Hampshire

A New Hampshire activist was found guilty on Monday in connection with recording telephone conversations with public officials without their consent and sentenced to 90 days in jail. A state legislator present in court said the "travesty" fueled him to further push for legislation to change the state's law requiring all-party consent in recordings.

A New Hampshire man is facing up to 21 years in prison if convicted of illegally recording telephone conversations with a high-ranking police official and two school employees.

The jury selection for the trial of blogger and self-proclaimed activist Adam Mueller is scheduled for Aug. 6 at the Hillsborough County Superior Court. Prosecutor Michael Valentine said in an interview that Mueller faces the maximum penalty of 3.5 to 7 years in prison for each of the charges against him.

The New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the state fire marshal may withhold certain records from a fire investigation under a judicially-created exemption from the Right-to-Know Law for records "compiled for law enforcement purposes." The opinion addressed the proper interpretation of this phrase, which the court noted was a matter of first impression.

The New Hampshire Supreme Court affirmed a lower court's decision to deny a firefighters' association access to redacted portions of minutes from over a dozen public local government meetings held between 2000 and 2009. The court said that because no one was in the audience at the 14 public meetings, minutes involving the government agency's attorney are confidential.

The New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled this week that the public has a right of access to the names of state pension benefit recipients as well as the amounts they receive. The court decided that the public interest in releasing the information outweighed any privacy interests of the individuals named within the records.

The court’s ruling affirms a lower court's order last year to the New Hampshire Retirement System to disclose the same records.

The New Hampshire Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a lower court's decision to deny public access to specific information regarding the Dover Police Department's video surveillance system.

Disclosure of a political candidate’s expunged criminal record cannot give rise to an invasion-of-privacy claim, the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.

The New Hampshire Supreme Court on Thursday reaffirmed that a website covering the mortgage industry has the same First Amendment protections as traditional media.